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Another politician tests positive for COVID-19

KARACHI: Faisal Sabzwari, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader, has been tested positive for COVID-19, a respiratory disease cause by the novel coronavirus.

“I myself, my parents, my wife and our children have contracted coronavirus and are now in quarantine,” Sabzwari confirmed to a private news channel.

Later in the day, the MQM-P leader posted a tweet and asked people to pray for his family and advised them to take precautionary measures to protect themselves from the pandemic.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.